SurLaLune Fairy Tales

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Only five of the six books in this series have been digitized. Four have now had sale prices at some point--and I've shared those sales on the blog here--so just one more to go, Black Thorn, White Rose! And it is worth the full price if you don't own it yet, of course.

These books were part of the inspiration for SurLaLune's creation many moons ago. Hopefully someday the sixth missing book, Snow White, Blood Red, will be digitized but that may never happen since most likely reprint rights are standing in its way.

Table of Contents:

Introduction -- Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling

Words Like Pale Stones -- Nancy Kress

Stronger Than Time -- Patricia C. Wrede

Somnus’s Fair Maid -- Ann Downer

The Frog King, or Iron Henry -- Daniel Quinn

Near-Beauty -- M. E. Beckett

Ogre -- Michael Kandel

Can’t Catch Me -- Michael Cadnum

Journeybread Recipe -- Lawrence Schimel

The Brown Bear of Norway -- Isabel Cole

The Goose Girl -- Tim Wynne-Jones

Tattercoats -- Midori Snyder

Granny Rumple -- Jane Yolen

The Sawing Boys -- Howard Waldrop

Godson -- Roger Zelazny

Ashputtle -- Peter Straub

Silver and Gold -- Ellen Steiber

Sweet Bruising Skin -- Storm Constantine

The Black Swan -- Susan Wade

Recommended Reading -- Misc. Material

Book description--Note, the book description for the Kindle edition is for the wrong book, so I grabbed this from the paperback (and I corrected several misspellings in that one!):

The award-winning editors of Snow White, Blood Red return us to distinctly adult realms of myth and the fantastic -- with eighteen wondrous works that cloak the magical fictions we heard at Grandma's knee in mantles of darkness and dread. From Roger Zelazny's delightful tale of Death's disobedient godson to Peter Straub's blood-chilling examination of a gargantuan Cinderella and her terrible twisted "art," here are stories strange and miraculous -- remarkable modern storytelling that remold our most cherished childhood fables into things sexier, more sinister . . . and more appealing to grown-up tastes and sensibilities.